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HOMEMADE - “The Smart Stick” co-inventor Martin Hall

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Old 08-30-2008, 02:20 AM
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If you read 3-F-4 in the 6th edition of the golfing machine book you will see why two Mag flashlights and a PVC pipe will do the job and for $200 less for that type of training. That is why I developed the 3-D laser swing trainer. It takes laser training to the next level. As for the bright green lasers I also use them in one of my hittable swing trainers and the retail price is $70 less than the smart stick. You can see the plane and hit balls all in one trainer. If you sold the smart stick for what it is worth and not pay for endorsements I might support it. But come on to sell it for over $200 and then sell a mat with lines on it for $50. You are telling the golfing public to bend over. Also you cannot tell if the club face is square with a dot laser. All it does is trace a line that is it. Two Mag flashlights in a PVC pipe will trace a line to.
Monitor your Hands Johnny boy not the clubface or green dot. The tracing allows the hands to 'roll ' on line properly without employing inferior position golf. I remember being one of the early posters about the smart stick after seeing a prototype in a bag of an instructor at a golf course I play at in NJ. I can't remember Tom coming on here to sell his product in the same vain as you do. I don't know how he got to Barclay but he was a perfect fit working with Hull, Noel, Castner, Fort, and EdZ. Maybe you should take a lesson in marketing from him. Lynn once handed out a small laser that you pinched with pp#3 finger to traced the plane line- in fact you can just point at it and run back and forth to train your right forearm tracing- cheaper still.

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monitor you hands- forget the clubface, - the hands are boss (and right in front of you)
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Old 08-30-2008, 02:50 PM
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Monitor your Hands Johnny boy not the clubface or green dot. The tracing allows the hands to 'roll ' on line properly without employing inferior position golf. I remember being one of the early posters about the smart stick after seeing a prototype in a bag of an instructor at a golf course I play at in NJ. I can't remember Tom coming on here to sell his product in the same vain as you do. I don't know how he got to Barclay but he was a perfect fit working with Hull, Noel, Castner, Fort, and EdZ. Maybe you should take a lesson in marketing from him. Lynn once handed out a small laser that you pinched with pp#3 finger to traced the plane line- in fact you can just point at it and run back and forth to train your right forearm tracing- cheaper still.

Over and Out.

monitor you hands- forget the clubface, - the hands are boss (and right in front of you)
Right on! You can use all the dowels and sticks but it just isn't the same feel as monitoring the sweetspot (#3) with a real club in your hands. I am probably one of the all time best laser plane line pointers but unfortunately there is so much more to a good strike then simply pointing a laser at the plane line.
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Old 08-30-2008, 06:46 PM
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Right on! You can use all the dowels and sticks but it just isn't the same feel as monitoring the sweetspot (#3) with a real club in your hands.

Understood, mb, and I agree. But, first . . .

You must learn to Swing the Hands! Only then should you add the Club "to develop its TOTAL equivalent in Lag Pressure Point Feel" (Homer Kelley / 5-0).

Fortunately, a wide variety of training aids exists to bridge the gap between Swinging the Hands and Swinging the Club. And that is exactly the way we attacked the problem with all the 'Left Wrist Benders' at The Barclays.

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